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Fla. Stat. ch. 395 — HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION · BenchPath

The Florida Statutes

Chapter 395. HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION

2026 Florida Statutes. Published by The Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine).

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The Florida Statutes
Title XXIX
Chapter 395

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Words from the text, or a citation such as § 90.803 or Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.510

Part I. HOSPITALS AND OTHERLICENSED FACILITIES

§ 395.001Legislative intent.
§ 395.002Definitions.
§ 395.003Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.
§ 395.004Application for license; fees.
§ 395.0056Litigation notice requirement.
§ 395.009Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewal of license.
§ 395.0091Alternate-site testing.
§ 395.0161Licensure inspection.
§ 395.0162Inspection reports.
§ 395.0163Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees.
§ 395.0185Rebates prohibited; penalties.
§ 395.0191Staff membership and clinical privileges.
§ 395.0192Duty to notify physicians.
§ 395.0193Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians.
§ 395.0195Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports.
§ 395.0197Internal risk management program.
§ 395.1011Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste.
§ 395.1012Patient safety.
§ 395.1021Treatment of sexual assault victims.
§ 395.1023Child abuse and neglect cases; duties.
§ 395.1024Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols.
§ 395.1025Infectious diseases; notification.
§ 395.1027Regional poison control centers.
§ 395.1031Emergency medical services; communication.
§ 395.1041Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled substance overdoses.
§ 395.1042Fentanyl testing.
§ 395.1051Duty to notify patients.
§ 395.1052Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification.
§ 395.1053Postpartum education.
§ 395.1054Birthing quality improvement initiatives.
§ 395.1055Rules and enforcement.
§ 395.1056Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption.
§ 395.1057Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives.
§ 395.106Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems.
§ 395.1061Professional liability coverage.
§ 395.1065Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium.
§ 395.107Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties.
§ 395.10973Powers and duties of the agency.
§ 395.2050Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review.
§ 395.301Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification.
§ 395.3011Billing and collection activities.
§ 395.3015Patient records; form and content.
§ 395.302Patient records; penalties for alteration.
§ 395.3025Patient and personnel records; copies; examination.
§ 395.3027Patient immigration status data collection.
§ 395.3035Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings.
§ 395.3036Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities.
§ 395.3037Definitions.
§ 395.3038State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals.
§ 395.30381Statewide stroke registry.
§ 395.3039Advertising restrictions.
§ 395.3041Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.
§ 395.3042Statewide venous thromboembolism registry.

Part II. TRAUMA

§ 395.40Legislative findings and intent.
§ 395.4001Definitions.
§ 395.401Trauma services system plans; approval of trauma centers and pediatric trauma centers; procedures; renewal.
§ 395.4015State regional trauma planning; trauma regions.
§ 395.402Trauma service areas; number and location of trauma centers.
§ 395.4025Trauma centers; selection; quality assurance; records.
§ 395.403Reimbursement of trauma centers.
§ 395.4036Trauma payments.

Part III. RURAL HOSPITALS

§ 395.602Rural hospitals.
§ 395.603Rural hospital impact statement.
§ 395.6061Rural hospital capital improvement.
§ 395.607Rural emergency hospitals.

Part IV. PUBLIC MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TRUST FUND

§ 395.701Annual assessments on net operating revenues for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical assistance; administrative fines for failure to pay assessments when due; exemption.
§ 395.7016Annual appropriation.
§ 395.7017Rulemaking authority.

Part V. FAMILY PRACTICE TEACHING HOSPITALS

§ 395.805Definitions.
§ 395.806Designation of family practice teaching hospitals.
§ 395.807Retention of family practice residents.

Part VI. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TEACHING HOSPITALS

§ 395.901Definitions; legislative findings and intent.
§ 395.902Behavioral health teaching hospitals.
§ 395.903Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital grant program.

Cited by 147 provisions

Provisions in this library whose text cites Fla. Stat. ch. 395; the first 50 in book order. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.

Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure

Fla. R. Juv. P. 8.350PLACEMENT OF CHILD INTO RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMPrinted as chapter 395

The Florida Statutes

§ 39.304, Fla. Stat.Photographs, medical examinations, X rays, and medical treatment of abused, abandoned, or neglected child.Printed as chapter 395
§ 39.407, Fla. Stat.Medical, psychiatric, and psychological examination and treatment of child; physical, mental, or substance abuse examination of person with or requesting child custody.Printed as chapter 395
§ 90.503, Fla. Stat.

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§ 395.404

Reporting of trauma data; report to National Trauma Data Bank.

§ 395.4045Emergency medical service providers; trauma transport protocols; transport of trauma alert victims to trauma centers; interfacility transfer.

§ 395.405Rulemaking.

§ 395.50Quality assurance activities of trauma agencies.

§ 395.51Confidentiality and quality assurance activities of trauma agencies.

Psychotherapist-patient privilege.

Printed as chapter 395

§ 95.11, Fla. Stat.Limitations other than for the recovery of real property.Printed as chapter 395

§ 112.181, Fla. Stat.Firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, law enforcement officers, correctional officers; special provisions relative to certain communicable diseases.Printed as chapter 395

§ 121.051, Fla. Stat.Participation in the system.Printed as chapter 395

§ 154.205, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 154.245, Fla. Stat.Agency for Health Care Administration certificate of need required as a condition to bond validation and project construction.Printed as chapter 395

§ 189.068, Fla. Stat.Special districts; authority for oversight; general oversight review process.Printed as chapter 395

§ 189.0695, Fla. Stat.Independent special districts; performance reviews.Printed as chapter 395

§ 196.012, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 222.26, Fla. Stat.Additional exemptions from legal process concerning medical debt.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.0035, Fla. Stat.Educational course on HIV and AIDS; employees and clients of certain health care facilities.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.004, Fla. Stat.HIV testing.Printed as chapter 395; chapters 395

§ 381.005, Fla. Stat.Primary and preventive health services.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.0056, Fla. Stat.School health services program.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.0098, Fla. Stat.Biomedical waste.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.0205, Fla. Stat.Emergency medical services.Printed as chapters 395

§ 381.026, Fla. Stat.Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.4015, Fla. Stat.Florida health care innovation.Printed as chapter 395

§ 381.4018, Fla. Stat.Physician workforce assessment and development.Printed as chapter 395

§ 382.008, Fla. Stat.Death, fetal death, and nonviable birth registration.Printed as chapter 395

§ 383.1401, Fla. Stat.Neonatal nutrition.Printed as chapter 395

§ 383.145, Fla. Stat.Newborn, infant, and toddler hearing screening.Printed as chapter 395

§ 383.316, Fla. Stat.Transfer and transport of clients to hospitals.Printed as chapter 395

§ 383.33625, Fla. Stat.Stephanie Saboor Grieving Parents Act; disposition of fetus; notification; forms developed.Printed as chapter 395

§ 383.402, Fla. Stat.Child abuse death review; State Child Abuse Death Review Committee; local child abuse death review committees.Printed as chapter 395

§ 385.202, Fla. Stat.Statewide cancer registry.Printed as chapter 395

§ 390.011, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 390.025, Fla. Stat.Abortion referral or counseling agencies; penalties.Printed as chapter 395

§ 392.62, Fla. Stat.Hospitalization and placement programs.Printed as chapter 395

§ 394.455, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 394.4572, Fla. Stat.Screening of mental health personnel.Printed as chapter 395

§ 394.4785, Fla. Stat.Children and adolescents; admission and placement in mental facilities.Printed as chapter 395

§ 394.875, Fla. Stat.Crisis stabilization units, residential treatment facilities, and residential treatment centers for children and adolescents; authorized services; license required.Printed as chapter 395

§ 394.907, Fla. Stat.Community mental health centers; quality assurance programs.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.19, Fla. Stat.Right of entry and inspection.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.462, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.471, Fla. Stat.Application for license; fee.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.474, Fla. Stat.Administrative penalties.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.601, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.6085, Fla. Stat.Contractual services.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.609, Fla. Stat.Hospice services.Printed as chapter 395

§ 400.9905, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 401.23, Fla. Stat.Definitions.Printed as chapter 395

§ 401.25, Fla. Stat.Licensure as a basic life support or an advanced life support service.Printed as chapter 395

§ 401.425, Fla. Stat.Emergency medical services quality assurance; immunity from liability.Printed as chapter 395

§ 401.45, Fla. Stat.Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability.Printed as chapter 395

§ 408.033, Fla. Stat.Local and state health planning.Printed as chapter 395

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